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It's a great question. For many years I quite often had the same problem and never understood why. I finally learned what the problem was in my case: I didn't know how I wanted them to come out before I took them. I was just seeing "something that I liked" and taking a picture of it. Now...

My i1 colour spider has Rosetta based software too. Looks like I can't upgrade to 10.7 in a hurry either :( Thanks for the insight.

Can't be anything to do with your colour profiles can it? Are you using Adobe RGB or LAB or something and stripping the profile before/while uploading it for viewing on the web so it thinks it's getting sRGB but isn't? Long shot but thought I'd ask...

Saw some gorgeous beach portrait shots on PicasaWeb last year by a woman (in NZ I think) called Tehila Zeinfield. Sadly she's taken all her brilliant arty pics off there now so I can't point you at them. Anyway, she was supremely good with strobes. She managed to balance it to perfection in...

No, the reversing ring still can't connect the contacts on the lens with the camera body, and it wouldn't do any good if it could. Even with a reversing ring the camera still thinks there's no lens as it has no signals through its contacts. However the camera will still take photos and will do...

"Get the Most from Photoshop", Simon Joinson [sic], David&Charles. RRP £15. Dense information content, great worked examples indexed on end effect required. Loads of 'tips' panels showing how to shorten workflows and use shortcut keys galore. Starts with basics but ends up covering reasonably...

I bought a similar one but it's poor. Two frame per click exposure on occasion (not bottomed out why) and a lug broke first time out leaving battery cover loose. The YongNuo looks better. Having said that mine does capture the frame (or two!) every time, has good range and I guess I can't...

I love shallow DoF for many shots, so my top three are: Nikkor 14-24mm f/2.8 - my favourite: great drama when used properly (but filters... aaah) Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8 - fantastic all round workhorse Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8 - astonishing VR, top notch crispness, good for everything from...

20 years ago I used to have problems with local children on my estate getting up to no good and thumbing their noses when challenged. I found that a flash from a compact camera was instantly effective at stopping both the misbehaviour and backchat. Given 10.y.o.s without adult supervision in...

If your printer will handle it, roll paper can let you trot out lovely long panoramas that have real impact. My printer allows up to 39" I think. I got my roll paper from FotoSpeed.

On softer ground a better method of securing your tripod than weights is to use a dog lead auger. These are like overgrown corkscrews that you can buy from a pet shop for a couple of quid. They normally secure dog leads in an open field or somesuch. For our purposes, you screw this deep in...

Sounds like others have good experience with this - useful tips here and there in this thread, thanks. I've done four athletics shoots and made a pittance of net profit on most. Main problems is awareness I think. Leaflets advertising the web site worked but mostly when I went round at the...

Some great landscape shots are a merge of two or more frames. Allows you to control highlights with one exposure then blend in shadow detail from another. Can also create effect of monster depth of field like this too. Tripod pretty essential to keep different frames aligned without losing...